IPA Contracting

Current Contracts

• Southcare
• Healthstar
• Pro America
• Preferred Plan of GA
• Evolution's
• Galaxy
• Unicare
• Comp First

Contracting Agent

Delegated Credentialing

Group Purchasing

• MAG Mutual
• Provider Select
• St. Anthony's Publishing
• Allied Collection & Credit Bureau
• Quest Laboratory
• American Transcribers

Contracts in Process

• First Health
• Pro-Net
• Cigna
• PHCS
• Aetna

Other Services

• Education
• Physician Referral Service
• Practice Management
• Application Population*
  *Free Service for MAG Insureds Only

CAAP is an independent physicians association of Phystar, Inc., which acts as a "Super IPA" for its local IPA Members:

CAAP - Athens
Bartow Clinics - Cartersville
Genesis - LaGrange
Coosa Clinics - Rome
URPO - Thomaston
Granite Health Alliance - Elberton

Phystar provides independent physicians, or physician groups, with a venue to maintain their independence and to thrive in a managed care marketplace. Phystar seeks to be responsive to its Physician members and with a focus on representing the Physician's interest in every undertaking. Phystar is committed to upholding these principals and to serving as the Physician's advocate.

The resources of Phystar are made available to all member IPAs. IPAs may become a member of Phystar by the vote of the membership and purchase of Class A and Class B stock.

The dues for primary care physicians are $100 per month, and $300 for specialists. Phystar's economies of scale savings help offset or in many cases more than pay for the amount of monthly dues. These savings are made available through discounts in malpractice, group health, officers & directors' liability, premises liability, and disability insurance. Also, we receive group discounts with purchasing agreements for medical and office supplies, furniture, uniforms, transcriptions, etc. Other benefits of Phystar membership is access to the Medicode MDR information for evaluation and managed care contracting, and cost accounting analysis by CPT code. Phystar also has an active manager network for education and information exchange.

The Board of Directors of Phystar is made up of representatives from each local IPA, with a balance of primary care and specialist. Each local IPA Director attends all board meetings with their physician representative.

The current officers of Phystar are:

• H.Harris Pittman, M.D. - Chairman
• Richard S. Simmons, M.D. - President
• Garry Person, M.D. - Vice President
• Ralph Warnock - Secretary Treasurer